Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest and is guaranteed to mature to $100,000 in 30 years. Through compounding, the principal and interest grow into that amount over the life of the bond. By contrast, the interest on a coupon bond is periodically paid out rather than compounded, so the investment does not balloon in value...
...Hewitt as the captain, Michael Jeter as the sergeant, Joe Palmieri as an inspector, Raymond Serra as the police chief) are basically cartoons of goons, the Four Stooges horsing around in the basement of the Lubyanka. Fo's jokes sometimes foozle aimlessly about the room like a balloon that jets on its own escaping air. An effort to give an essentially Italian product some American flavor has produced a dozen badly aimed, almost incompetent anti-Reagan cracks...
Earlier the controllers had sounded similarly reassuring after another preparatory exercise for April's satellite rescue had flopped. That was when a big Mylar balloon released by the shuttle apparently expanded while still in its canister and burst. The shuttle had been scheduled to chase the balloon from distances up to 120 miles as training for finding Solar Max. At week's end, there was still no explanation of why that $400,000 experiment had misfired...
...sinewy remote-controlled arm, using it to lift out into space a German-built platform known as SPAS (for Shuttle Pallet Satellite), which is loaded with scientific instruments. More significant, they are slated for a two-day game of tag with a 6½-ft.-diameter Mylar balloon. As the sphere drifts as far as 120 miles away, the crew will use radar and optical tracking to find their way back to it. The maneuvers are a rehearsal for April's retrieval of Solar...
Once they got to work, though, plenty was going on, including celebratory breakfasts, pizza parties and balloon poppings. In San Francisco, a giant banner showing the company's globelike logo was unfurled at AT&T's regional headquarters. At its Manhattan offices, the new, slimmed-down AT&T got quickly down to work and showed that things would be changing in American business. On Monday, the company signed an agreement under which Convergent Technologies, a computer manufacturer, will build new products for AT&T. Before the breakup, such a move would have been barred by the Government...